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Certainty aggregation and the certainty fuzzy measures

International Journal of Intelligent Systems, 2018
Aggregation functions are mostly used in decision-making situations that require information fusion in a meaningful manner. The main purpose of aggregation is to turn a group of input data into a single and comprehensive one. However, in real decision-making and system evaluation problems, the decision maker may exhibit only some amount of certainty in
Radko Mesiar   +2 more
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The Quest for Certainty

Archives of Neurology And Psychiatry, 1959
We plan to explore with uncertainty some theoretic and practical implications of the idea of certainty. Much of what we have to say may of itself not be new. Nevertheless, some psychodynamic and psychotherapeutic problems may be differently and, perhaps, more successfully approached from this conceptual frame.
E K, SCHWARTZ, A, WOLF
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The Certainty of Sense-Certainty

Idealistic Studies, 2010
Commentators on the Phenomenology of Spirit have offered careful but conflicting accounts of Hegel's chapter on sense-certainty, either defending his starting point and analysis or challenging it on its own terms for presupposing too much. Much of the disagreement regarding both the subject matter and success of Hegel's chapter on sense-certainty can ...
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Belief and certainty

Synthese, 2016
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Fishing for certainty

Nature, 2007
Science advisers should have confidence in their data, or risk being undermined by more dogmatic and vociferous stakeholders during the policy-making process.
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Training for certainty

Social Science & Medicine, 1984
This paper offers a critique of the idea of 'uncertainty' in the sociology of medicine, particularly in the context of studies of medical education. The work of Renée Fox is used as the main example of the work against which this criticism is levelled.
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On the Illusion of Certainty

Psychiatry, 2017
Medicine is a science of uncertainty.—William OslerPerhaps it takes an emeritus professor to write about his mother in support of his argument about the limitations of diagnostic and treatment appr...
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Blinded by certainties

Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, 2019
To the Editor: We thank Dr Abdallah et al for their comments regarding our article and welcome all valuable opinions.[1][1] However, we respectfully disagree with their statement of inaccuracy of our main conclusion.
Philippe Marty   +5 more
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The Illusion of Certainty

New England Journal of Medicine, 1996
Stage A 42-year-old man saw a physician because he had had pain in both hips for several months. The pain was made worse by climbing stairs and ladders and was more severe on the left side. Ibuprofen provided no relief. He thought the problem might be bursitis; several months earlier he had had bursitis in his shoulder that had felt similar and was ...
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Certainty Equivalent

2009
When examining the potential outcomes a given event may hold, a person is likely to approximate the probability of each possible result. Taken into consideration by the individual is the degree to which any of these outcomes may be certain. That is, although the benefit derived from an event with a lesser or unknown likelihood of occurring may be much ...
Strawderman, Lesley, Schaefer, Lacey
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